Gizmodo: Toothpaste

ICQ, the Toothpaste

Jason Chen — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:30:00 EDT

Everyone remembers ICQ, the first widely-used instant messaging application that's all but dead in most of the world now. The Israeli software company that developed the suite before it was purchased by AOL has just partnered with a big Israeli pharmacy company called CTS to release this ICQ toothpaste, which our tipster claims will "help P2P communication (person to person) while reducing bad breath." Weird, yet really really cool. On a related note, I've got a low six-digit ICQ number. How long is yours? [Thanks Nir!]

X-Paste, For Teeth (Not Penis)

Mark Wilson — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:00:33 EST

While its name tantalizes the libido with possibilities of a super sex cream/adhesive, the X-Paste is just for teeth (though what you do in the privacy of your bathroom is not for us to judge).

Mounting on your wall, the X-Paste is a pump that distributes the "perfect" amount of toothpaste on your brush. We've looked through the entire site, but we're still not certain how one pumps the device or defines "perfect" amount. So we'll have to assume that advanced AI uses a dual brainwave/stank breath detector to provide handless pumping that spews hundreds of gallons of toothpaste at ~~unwilling~~ willing bathroom-goers. $59 – Mark Wilson

Product Page [via uberreview]

Automatic Toothpaste Dispenser: One-Handed Toothbrushing

Charlie White — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:19:12 EDT

If you want to do up your bathroom all fancy-stylin' and move those half-squeezed toothpaste tubes out of sight, here's a stainless steel dispenser with suction cups you can mount to your mirror or any other smooth surface.

Accommodating any sized tube of toothpaste inside, it gives you one-handed dispensing, pumping out the toothpaste when you push on the bottom with your toothbrush.

It's hard to tell exactly how this $59.95 thingamajig works—the company says there's a "patented X-Pump" that mechanically forces out the toothpaste— but we'll believe it when we see it. – Charlie White

Product Page [Sharper Image, via Coolest Gadgets]

So Many Flavors, So Little Time

Charlie White — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 07:03:49 EST

Forget toothpaste. Now it's time to put some flavor in your life with Breath Palette. At $161 for a kit of all 31 flavors, who could resist? Looks like an all-natural idea for packaging toothpaste and then selling it for hundreds of times more than was spent to manufacture it. You didn't realize you needed this, but you must be getting bored with that same old minty taste in your mouth after every brushing, so now work some Indian Curry flavor around that pie hole.

When you face brushing your teeth with flavors such as a Monkey Banana, Sweet Salt, and Darjeeling Tea, you may want to just skip the brushing and have a snack instead. Some of the flavors on the 31-item list sounded rather appealing, though, such as Vanilla, California Orange, Cinnamon and Caramel. But we editors of Gizmodo will just stick with the toothpaste we have, brushing once a month whether we need to or not.

Product page

Breath Palette toothpastes at $5 each [Amazon]